Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
Albert Einstein
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Memory believes before knowing remembers.
William Faulkner, Light in August
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
Albert Einstein
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Memory believes before knowing remembers.
William Faulkner, Light in August
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
We ought to imitate bees, and sift whatever we have gathered from a varied course of reading, and so blend those several flavours into one delicious compound.
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
James Baldwin
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
We read to know we are not alone.
C. S. Lewis
We ought to imitate bees, and sift whatever we have gathered from a varied course of reading, and so blend those several flavours into one delicious compound.
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
James Baldwin
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
We read to know we are not alone.
C. S. Lewis
It vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne, Essays
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Dylan Thomas
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
It vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne, Essays
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Dylan Thomas
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Beauty is no quality in things themselves.
David Hume
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Beauty is no quality in things themselves.
David Hume
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, wild nights should be our luxury.
Emily Dickinson
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Robert Frost
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, wild nights should be our luxury.
Emily Dickinson
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Robert Frost
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
A commonplace book.
Some words are worth collecting. Opuss returns them to you once you've half-forgotten them.
An invitation when there's room. Nothing else.